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"We've got a scouting mission for you and Emily to go on, Sabine. We only require you stay overnight and then return to the fleet." Hera explained as Sabine stood on the other side of the command module in the command centre.
"Where are we going for the mission?" Sabine asked.
"Tatooine" Hera replied simply
"Oh joy. It better not scuff my paint job" Sabine groaned.
"As long as you don't go playing in the sand you should be fine" Hera replied in a jokey way.
"I'll go let Em know."
"There will be some gear you need to take too. So they'll be with the shuttle when you leave" Hera responded
"Can do" Sabine simply said before leaving the room to return to the room she shared with Emily.
Emily had still been uneasy about Kanan, Zeb and Hera following the incident a week ago, she would engage in conversation with them, but she would not allow them eye contact. It was a start, so they put up with it.
Sabine entered the room to find Emily still laying in her bunk. "Em. We've got a mission"
"Meg cuyir bic" Emily mumbled as she turned over to face her twin.
"Scouting mission on Tatooine. Nothing too big. They want us to stay overnight and then come back the evening afterwards. Good thing too, I'd hate to be in all that sand for a long period of time" Sabine replied. Emily rolled over to make eye contact with Sabine. She didn't say anything but Sabine thought someone was up. "Something's bugging you." She said simply.
"Cuyir val coming?" Emily said simply.
"Nope. Just you and me."
"Jate"
Sabine rolled her eyes, she was getting used to this attitude now. "Well you'd better get up. It's gonna be quite a long journey for us to get to Tatooine." Sabine said as she grabbed a few things from the other side of the room. "Oh and there's stuff we need to move onto the shuttle"
Emily got up out of her bed and she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes before putting her armour on. Once she was done grabbing everything she needed, she followed Sabine out and towards the hangar.
It wasn't long before the shuttle departed from the hangar and was on it's way to Tatooine. As it was to be a long journey, Emily decided to get some rest in the meantime.
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"Sir. You're putting her in for additional experiments?" An Imperial doctor inquired upon reading what Sparrow had in mind for L-51.
"You aren't prepared to perform the task?"
"No sir. It's just. I would have thought you would want her to be put under for the surgeries." The doctor replied.
"You expect me to waste our supplies on L-51? Perform the surgeries"
"Of course sir" The doctor responded simply before turning around and heading to the operating room where L-51 awaited them.
Emily suddenly awoke with a slight shriek. She clutched at her chest, the memories of the nightmare coming back to her. "They opened me up" She thought, still overcoming the horrors that she had been put under.
"Emily?" Sabine's voice came from beside her and she slowly turned to Sabine, seeing the concern on her face. "Another nightmare?" she added. Emily looked away from Sabine for a moment before looking back again. That gave Sabine the answer, so she gently hugged Emily. "It's ok. It's ok" she soothed.
"Ogir's stuff inside ni. Kaysh naritir... kebise inside ni" Emily whimpered.
"Inside you? What's inside you?" She asked, concerned.
"Ni don't kar'taylir... Sparrow had bic naritir inside ni"
"Whatever it is. We're getting you checked once we get back from this mission. ok?" Sabine said and Emily nodded slightly, knowing Sabine wasn't going to easily let this pass.
"Everything alright back there?" The co-pilot of the shuttle asked, having come down from the cockpit to see what the matter was.
"Just a nightmare. It's sorted now" Sabine replied.
"Alright then. We'll be arriving in a few minutes anyway." The co-pilot answered before heading back to the cockpit.
"We'd better get our things together, Eh Em?" Sabine said softly as she turned her attention back to her twin. Emily still seemed a little uneasy. But Sabine's words made her smile just a fraction and they prepared for landing.
The shuttle landed in one of the space ports not long afterwards and the twins headed off to find their safehouse that had been arranged for them. Once they had left the spaceport, the shuttle departed.
"From what was said. The marker we had to look for was a LothCat" Sabine explained as they searched for the house.
Emily raised an eyebrow "Tion'jor ibac?"
"Well we both know what they look like. And well. I know how much you adore them" Sabine replied. Once they turned another corner Sabine spotted their safehouse at the end of the street. "See. There it is" She pointed at a small Lothcat symbol on the side, so only people who knew what they were looking for would find it. "Home sweet home for now I suppose" She said as she opened the door and they headed inside. "I'll put together this holoprojector together so we can talk to Kanan and Hera. You go ahead and get unpacked." Sabine said as she knelt down and took her pack off.
Emily nodded and headed into the other room, where they'd be sleeping. Sabine watched Emily go into the other room through the corner of her eye. "We'll fix this" she thought...